Value of US-Canada freight moving by truck increases: BTS

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Year-over-year, the percent change in the value of US-Canada freight moved by truck increased the most of any mode, growing 4.7 percent, said a Bureau of Transportation Statistics freight report released today. Freight moved by air increased 1.7 percent and rail by 0.7 percent. Freight moved by pipeline decreased 2.6 percent and vessel decreased 14.7 percent, mainly due to lower mineral fuel prices.

Trucks carried 54.8 percent of the $58.6 billion of freight to and from Canada, followed by rail, 16.1 percent; pipeline, 12.8 percent; vessel, 4.9 percent and air, 4.5 percent. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 83.7 percent of the total U.S.-Canada freight flows.